Justifying ourselves....

Matthew 12:1-2 At that time Jesus went through the grainfields on the Sabbath. His disciples were hungry and began to pick some heads of grain and eat them. When the Pharisees saw this, they said to him, “Look! Your disciples are doing what is unlawful on the Sabbath.” Jesus has just mourned over those who refuse to believe, and rejoiced over those who in childlike faith do believe. The two groups come head-to-head now: His followers were with Him; the Pharisees stood against him. Their platform for opposition was to accuse them of some minor infraction, blown out of proportion. Before we jump on their case, how often do we do the same? We allow something someone else does, which we would not do (or at least think we would not do), and use it to contrast their sinfulness with our "holiness". But no amount of Law-Keeping can offset the lack of faith they have demonstrated in the Messiah. Whatever we find wrong in others, Jesus can find more in us. He knows it all.